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Candlestick Graph
Candlestick graphs are a traditional financial visualization for display of time-based price
distributions. Specifically, for each time slice, they display:
Opening Price
Highest Price
Lowest Price
Closing Price
The Candle is filled if the closing price is lower than the open and empty if the closing price is
higher than the open.
The vertical line (or candle wick) displays the range of traded prices across the period.
Figure 2-12. A line graph with last value and name shown on a right aligned Y-axis
Figure 2-18. An order book graph displaying the top 10 levels of an orderbook across time
Figure 2-19. An order book graph displaying a forward curve across time.
Figure 2-30. Stacked needle graph (Buy and sell volume - separated).
Figure 2-31. Stacked needle graph (Net volume through aggregation – Buy/sell).
Figure 2-33. A time series scatter plot (Trade volume with best bid and offer).
Bar Graph
Bar Graphs are probably the best-known visualization for quantitative data.
You can display Panopticon Designer Bar Graphs either horizontally or vertically. These graphs
are available in three variants:
Standard
Grouped
Stacked
In each case, you can sort the layout of the bar graph according to your requirements, and,
with hierarchical data, the graph represents the netted position at each aggregated depth
level.
You can also use the Bar Graph visualization to display demographic data in so-called Tornado
Charts or Population Pyramids.
Box Plot
Box Plots are designed to display numeric distributions.
The plot draws the Minimum, 25th Percentile, Median, 75th Percentile, and Maximum of the
specified measure by category.
This can be provided as a single measure, where Panopticon performs the aggregation.
Figure 3-9. A flat Circle Pack –Showing Outer Circle with aggregate color.
Figure 3-13. A Cross Tabbed Circle Pack – Showing Correlation of Industries to Countries
Dot Plot
Dot Plots have two primary use cases:
A more effective alternative to a Bar Graph
A distribution display similar to a Scatter Plot
Dot Plots are an effective alternative to Bar Graphs, particularly in cases where the data being
analyzed contains many similar numeric values.
In comparison with the Bar Graph, Dot Plots do not use a zero baseline and are less cluttered.
This makes it easier to add additional data variables to the visualization.
Dot Plots can also be used to represent data distributions in which one axis is numeric while
the other axis is categorical. Scatter Plots using such data sets can be misinterpreted; Dot
Plots of the same data are unambiguous and easy to understand.
Figure 3-25. Funnel Chart with Color showing Stage in the Funnel
Figure 3-33. Map Plot of the Netherlands, Belgium and surrounding countries.
Numeric Line Graphs can also be displayed on their side through a Vertical Numeric line
Graph. These graphs are typically used in the Oil Industry for displaying drill sensor data.
Pareto Chart
The Pareto Chart is a combination of the Bar Graph and Categorical Line Graph, and can be
used for comparing actuals to forecasts, and if the dataset is available, comparing individual to
cumulative returns.
The traditional usage of a Pareto chart displays individual values in a descending order as
bars, with the cumulative total represented by the line.
A common usage of the Pareto chart is to compare actual values to forecast/target values,
with the actuals being displayed as the bar, and the forecast as the line. In this scenario,
typically both measures are bound to the left Y axis, so that they have comparable scales.
Figure 3-64. A Waterfall Chart with categorical color and cumulative performance value labels
Figure 3-65. A Waterfall Chart with color and value labels showing performance change